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Qlan: The Gamers’ exclusive Social Network platform launched with 50,000 pre-registrations on the Google Play Store

By: Sanket Savaliya on November 26, 2021 / comment : 0 Anil, Gaming

An exclusive campaign initiates #JointheQlan to encourage the gaming & esports community to meet, connect and get discovered through this App

New Delhi, 25th November, 2021: Adding an edge to the esports segment, Qlan, an interactive social networking app dedicated for gamers, announced their successful launch on Google Play Store with 50,000 pre-registrations on Thursday. The exclusive platform presents a whole new approach to connect and engage with the gaming and esports community with a vision of creating a robust and sustainable ecosystem.

The platform is developed for gamers, gaming professionals, squads, orgs, tournament organizers, content creators and other stakeholders in the industry to build, find and exchange value to further their growth. The brainchild of Sagar Nair, co-founder and CEO, and Navin Talreja, co-founder and CBO, Qlan, envision the growth of the esports industry while being one of the enablers in the process.

“It is a surreal feeling to successfully launch Qlan. Gaming and esports is our passion and we understand the massive potential that this segment has. While in the existing social setup, gamers and the esports ecosystem were unable to address various issues like making the right connections, proper recognition for their in-game talent, a structured system for players and skilled individuals to showcase their skills, creating and sharing content in one designated gaming only platform. The idea is to unite the existing fragmented communities and facilitate value exchange amongst them. These lacunas in the existing social system obstructed the right talent from getting tapped. And that is what prompted Qlan’s inception, it will address existing grassroot problems that the gaming ecosystem has been facing in the social space all this while,” Sagar Nair, Co-founder and CEO of Qlan said after the launch of the App.

It is a genre-specific one stop networking app with some of the key features like:

1. Create custom solo, squad & org profiles 

2. Showcase gaming skills by syncing in-game statistics 

3. Share gaming & esports content with an option to monetise early 

4. Promote esports tournaments, brands & IPs to a targeted audience

5. Access AI-enabled gamer matchmaking for verified connections

This AI-based networking app offers the stakeholders in the business and the thriving esports community to meet, communicate and get discovered. Providing optimum opportunities to new prospects while augmenting the industry further.

“We are eagerly looking forward to how our early users respond to Qlan. After months of research and gathering insights by conducting various pro-to type surveys and trials we were able to understand the existing, unattended problems, and that motivated us to come up with the solution—QLAN. Qlan is built with a focused vision on uniting the key stakeholders in the industry to build, find and exchange value to bolster their own communities and business. We believe it would prove to be an industry game changer. Whether you’re looking to go pro, find your esports squad, seek professional opportunities in the industry, in Qlan you have a trusted enabler for anything you want to achieve in the gaming and esports space” said Navin Talreja, Co-founder and CBO after the launch.

India’s finest poker players go ALLINFORCHARITY with the Virtual Poker League 2020

By: Sanket Savaliya on October 14, 2020 / comment : 0 Digital, Gaming

• Poker Sports League announces the first-ever Virtual Poker League 2020
• India’s top 30 poker players unite to play for a cause with a prize pool of INR 10 Lakh
• The league to take place from 14^th to 17^th October 2020

The tournament will take place in three stages: - Stage One: There will be 5 matches with 6 players each on Oct 14^th and 15^th, Stage Two: All 30 players will play a multi-table tournament and play down to the winner on Oct 16^th, Stage Three: Finale on Oct 17^th.

The Virtual Poker League 2020 aims to bring a change by uniting the finest poker players of the country to play for a cause and use their skills to go #ALLINFORCHARITY. Elated to make the announcement Mr. Amit Burman, Promoter - Poker Sports League said, "I am thrilled to announce VPL on behalf of the entire team of Poker Sports League. Setting a benchmark in today's tech-savvy world, VPL is the first-ever poker event (post-COVID) which replicates the live poker experience. Our entire operations are conducted in a virtual format through the Virtual Poker League.”

With a prize pool of INR 10 Lakh, the sum will be distributed in the ratio of 5:3:2 to charities of the winners’ choice. United Way Chennai, Super School India and ASSCOD (The Association for Sustainable Community Development) are the official charity partners. He further added, “#ALLINFORCHARITY tournament will witness some of the finest poker players in the country play for a cause that is beyond winnings of any tournament played for personal benefit.”

Promoting a wholesome competition of Poker and considering the rising interest of women for this game, VPL has made it mandatory for each team to have at least 1 female member in the tournament. However, the league will consist of 6 teams with 5 players each. The best showdown will lead - making the rest of the community fold in the league.

Elaborating on the idea behind this tournament, Mr. Pranav Bagai, CEO and Co – Founder, Poker Sports League stated, “Poker Events that normally gain interest and traction are those with high prize pools and crores at stake. Most people assume that professional poker players, due to the nature of their profession are inherently greedy and only care about their personal benefits. But that is untrue and the idea behind VPL is to help change the negative perception built around poker and poker players and prove that the Poker community cares.”

He further added, "This marks a great initiative in the books of the Indian Poker players, who are stepping in the battleground to showcase their skills for a good cause. Strategically aligning a virtual tournament gives us an edge on the tech front, earning the trust of our stakeholders to a great extent. The seed thought was to highlight the social responsibilities that come along with it and were considered inconsequential before."

In line with the concept of Poker Sports League’s season 3, the Virtual Porker League will be played online on the company’s proprietary application – Hashtag Poker and will be streamed online on its Youtube channel. The same virtual platform will also be used for this year’s Poker Sports League - Virtual.